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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (2914)	10/29/2000 12:01:02 AM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

I read "all-knowing" as meaning an all that includes the future. But I agree with you that it's a distinction without a difference, because, as you say, knowing "everything" about the present gives you data about what forces are interacting with each other and precisely how, and what the outcomes of such interactions will be according to the laws of psychology, physics, microbiology, chemistry, mathematics, etc., which you also know. Your knowledge base would include everything that was a determinant for the next phase. You'd do well in the stock market if you were omniscient. Except for, of course, with penny stocks. I don't know what the initial value problem of differential equations and QM is.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (2914)	10/29/2000 5:38:06 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

even an omniscient being is limited by the initial value problem One of the things I am saying is that if any being can predict the future, with certainty, then our universe is deterministic, which basicly means there is a fixed future for it. There are many variations on this theme, but it all boils down to the fact that if anything can predict the future then we are governed by fate and not free will. This violates one of my axioms and therefore I say it can't happen. TP